3D printing is often hailed as the future of manufacturing, but right now a 3D printing farm – with numerous 3D printers working in unison – is one of the only ways to 3D print batches of a reasonable size. And that has one major limitation: it requires a lot of hands-on attention to operate a farm at any decent speed. But Oregon startup Tend.ai might have a solution. They have built the first fully automated 3D printing farm, operated by a robotic arm that uses low-cost electronics to monitor all printing activities and operate the 3D printers. It’s […]